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FamilySearch Wiki - Wilderness Road

1775 from Bristol, Virginia through the Cumberland Gap, Kentucky to Boonesboro, Kentucky with several branches and extensions, background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

The Wilderness Road and the Cumberland Gap

Map by Beverly Whitaker.

Wilderness Road Regional Museum

Information about the Museum as well as original documents online pertaining to early southwest Virginia.